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Why? Why do you want to be a “writer”? Who cares? Why use AI? Why hack out some compromised vision? Being a “writer” isn’t an achievement. Seeing your name in print isn’t an achievement. You’ve missed the forest for the trees. The achievement is the journey. It’s the hours, days, and years of practice that create growth. It’s fledging. The leap. The courage to speak up. To find your voice and state the truth in your words. Writing is a form of living. But we’ve forgotten how to live. All we know is how to sell, and buy, and watch people buy, and review things they’ve bought, and chide people for their purchasing decisions, and give ourselves badges for having sold or bought in this quantity or that. Yuck. It’s a lifeless endeavor. A lost wandering. It’s why everyone is so easily pulled in this direction or that by the current of public opinion. By manufactured trends. The fomo of not having written. A “writer” should know better.
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R.I.P. McKennaFeb 27
Growth is a tough word. I think most of what you're railing against (over-sensitivity to memetics) is compressed by that "growth mindset." The other thing is that in principle growth is indefinite, yet in practice it has a ceiling. Sometimes it's helpful to know when to quit and that it's ok to quit. Starting over is scary. We invent all these ways to "flee" in the Heideggerien sense and I think "growth is good" is one of them. Yet we seem surprised to realize we move towards that which we flee.